The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-16
LABOR NOTES.
Philadalnhia REGARD

Philadelphia Record.
Several barbed- wire works in the West have
increased tn cir capacity.
So far this month thirteen thousand men have
struck for higher wages.
The spring and axle manufacturers have
formed national association.
The Western and Eastern nail-makers failed
to arrive at an understanding.
The city of Detroit has awarded contract for
an iron bridge, to cost $3.50 00O
Workingmen travelling less from place to
place this year than ever before.
There is great scarcity of cars for coke, ium-
Der. and coal throughout the West.
There is q very heavy demand for ali kinds of
railway locomotive and car appliances.
A number of rolling mills il the West are now
idle on account of tho rollers difficulty.
So great is the demasd for pipe in the far
West that factory is to be built at Pueblo.
A large number of Sheffield silversmths are
about to depart for employment in New York
city.
An English inventor has devised new system
of generating steam. which furnishes steam, it is
said. quicker and better than the present pro-
cesses.
New York capitalists. with some Canadian in
vestors, are after IL, 900 square miles of tim
bered and iron-ore property in Canada. It is
said that it contains large amount of coal.
Very few strikes projected during the fall.
The workingmeu, rule, are contented. and
will work steadily in order to be prepared for
any hard times that may come during next
winter.
A large amount of Illinois harvesting machip-
cry Is now on its way to South America and
Australia. The Illinois travelling agents
paying particular attention to these far-off
markets.
great many new industrial enterprises
large and small, announced in northern
Alabama. The multitude of these enterprises
detracts from the usual interest in their
announcement
There is great anxiety to purchase timber
lands and ore lands in the South. One of the
la%o L. a1zno -, NJ 49,.
and covered 10000 acres. The territory will be
developed at
British manufacturers are expecting to profit
very largely this fall and winter out of the activ
called the Moss Bay Company, expects to move
its entire works to the United States.
There 327 blast furnaces in operation in
the United States. producing 125, $50 tons per
week, and 313 idle, with weekly capacity of
122. 042 tons The anthracite capacity has in
creased from 33 COZ tons weekly a year ago to
80. 278 now.
There is a great demand fer freight boats on
Western lakes and rivers. A Cleveland company
has increased IT'S facilities to enable it to turn
out a large freight steamboat every three
months All of the lake ship and boat-yards
doing good business.
The prosperity of the farming communities in
the West is resulting in the building up of
multitude of little Industries near the markets.
The larger concerns in the leading cities are dis
covering competition from these sources,
and are putting forth special efforts to protect
their future trade from the little ones.
An iron fence works ia to be erected at Platts
Mouth. Neb. and a wire-nail factory is to be
erected at Dubuque. Ia. with capacity of one
hundred kegs per day. Another wire and wire
nail factory is to be built at Wichita. Kan. at
cost of $500 and q carworks is to be built
seventy-fve acres of land; cost. $500, 900.
Notwithstanding the great increase in hosiery
manufacturing, dozen or more mills are pro-
iected, which work will be begun in Septem-
Der. A concern is leaving Schenectady, N. Y,
on account of lack Of mill room. Cheap land is
an important matter to good many small
manufacturers, and they 60 where they can get
IT.
The electricians and manufacturers of cleo
trical supplies are not only moderately but ex-
tremely busy. Electricity is being applied
motive power large number of sire ct
railway lines A Daft car has just been star ted
a Mansfield line. Four running
the linei Detroit with Fisher motors. An cleo
trio road. to be thirty miles long is to be built
at Los Angeles. and eight motor-cars will be
new electric road is to be
built in San Francisco. The Edison
people running printing presses, ele
vators, shirt factories and sewing machipes
in New Orleans The same company is operat-
ing coffee mills. sewing machines and other
small machinery in ST. Paul. A great many
small machines are being run by electricity in
Galveston. The Thompson Houston company is
making small machines spin in Providence, and
is running lathes, coffee mills and stone-cutting
and polishing machines. The price is 800 to
$50 per year. The Daily Courier of Lowell,
horse power dynamo. A great deal of small
machinery is being run that way in Boston. An
electric system for railways Is to be introduced
in Omaha. Six thousand feet of electric track
used in a Lykens valley coal mine. The
weight of the train is fifty-six tons.